On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 03:32:18PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 17:56 -0700, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: > > o modulation > > o long/short retry > > o relative power saving.
> What's the point of adding more ioctls that we'll be implementing them > as wrappers around nl80211? Right now, those new ioctls/options aren't > implemented in *any* driver at all so they're completely useless, and > just add more to the pile of historic baggage we end up carrying around. > If we add these to mainline now, it's another thing we'll have to carry > for a long time even though it currently has no users... I don't know about the others, but long/short retry limits have users (e.g., Host AP driver) and these drivers are currently forced to use a hack to do this without this cleanup. Furthermore, this part does not add a new ioctl. -- Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
